Teen: President is my dad

A Peruvian court ruled yesterday that President Alejandro Toledo must take a DNA test in August to establish if he is the father of a 14-year-old girl in a high-profile paternity suit, a lawyer said.

"[Judge Carmen Kcomt] ordered the DNA test for August 7. We will suggest the laboratory where the test should be done," Jose Neyra, attorney for Zarai Orozco's mother Lucrecia Orozco, said.

Ms Orozco has been pushing for Mr Toledo, the US-trained economist who took charge of the poor Andean nation last July, to take the test to establish whether or not he is the father of Zarai. She wants him to recognise the girl as his daughter.

While previous blood tests determined a 97 per cent certainty of Mr Toledo's paternity and he has admitted to a relationship with Ms Orozco in the 1980s when he was estranged from his Belgian wife, he denies he is the girl's father.

But a source close to the President said the ruling would not force Mr Toledo to take the test and that documents would be presented clarifying the resolution.");document.write("

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"As far as I understand, this judicial resolution does not oblige him to undergo the DNA test," the source said.